Wayne Nordstrom

Penetration Tester, Vulnerability Analyst, Cybersecurity Specialist 

Wayne Nordstrom is a highly skilled and experienced: Penetration Tester, Vulnerability Analyst and Cybersecurity Specialist with a wide range of technical expertise including but not limited to: Ethical hacking, secure software coding, penetration testing, vulnerability assessments, and Linux systems administration. Wayne Nordstrom is adept at using technical acumen and strong communication skills to effectively drive discussions with all levels of staff and senior leadership. He is able to provide advocacy and strategic technical guidance to plan, build, and execute value added solutions using best practices to proactively keep technical environments operationally healthy and secure.

In 2015, Wayne Nordstrom began working with Sanofi Pharmaceuticals as an industrial control systems (ICS) security engineer, a position he held for over a year and a half. While there, he collaborated with project managers across several countries developing network infrastructure, and applications security solutions. He developed and implemented highly secure network and firewall security solutions in order to meet international GxP and FDA compliance requirements for companies manufacturing life sciences products. He regularly performed risk assessments while proposing and implementing appropriate mitigation strategies.

Following this, Mr. Nordstrom served as one of CVS Health’s Senior Network and Applications Security Engineers, where he regularly identified and addressed security threats and vulnerabilities across the firm’s infrastructure and applications across 70,000 retail network pharmacies. He secured network infrastructures and developed mitigation strategies to address security vulnerabilities found.

Since 2017, Wayne Nordstrom has been a student at Cape Cod Community College, where he has undertaken an in depth study of Security Penetration Testing, Ethical Hacking, and Networking. He is pursuing an Associate of Science degree specifically in Cybersecurity, focusing on Security Penetration Testing, he expects to graduate in May of 2020, Cum Laude. Additional coursework in Linux Systems Administration prepared him well for the CompTIA Linux+ certification exam which he has passed earning him the title of Certified Linux+ Systems Administrator. His most recent college cousework includes but is not limited to: Penetration Testing, Ethical Hacking, Reverse Engineering, Networking, Wireless Networking, Cybercrime, Microcomputer Hardware, Windows and IOS Operating Systems. Alongside the degree, which he expects to earn by May of 2020, he holds numerous CompTIA, Cisco, GIAC, and EC Council certifications across a wide range of technical topics in addition to being certified in various Microsoft enterprise applications.

Wayne Nordstrom's areas of expertise include but are not limited to: Penetration Testing, Ethical Hacking, Vulnerability Assessments, and Secure High Availability Network Design and Engineering, and secure Wayne Nordstrom is able to identify and document gaps/risks using the following - Tools: Kali Linux, Metasploit, Nmap, Wireshark, Burp Suite, Nessus, Qualys, SolarWinds, Rapid-7, QRadar, SolarWinds